The core of Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s new book, Poor Economics, can be summed up by a single sentence in the foreword: “[W]e have to abandon the habit of reducing the poor to cartoon ...

Abhijit Banerjee, a Nobel laureate for economics, is celebrated globally for his groundbreaking work on poverty alleviation, and his ability to translate intricate economic theories into ...

This stark contradiction is just one of the many themes explored by economist and Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee in his latest book, Chhaunk: On Food, Economics, and Society. In a conversation at ...

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University, where he received his doctorate in 1988. He is currently the Ford Foundation ...